Quotes About Cate
• "She was also quietly perceptive, with a great sense
of humor." --Ralph Fiennes (fellow actor)
• "Cate's a killer. And I mean that in the best way.
She's very grounded, savvy, and worked out, with a clear
sense of her own ability and worth. As an actress she's
like a jeweler and a gem; she takes herself out of the
black velvet setting and holds different facets of her
talent up to the light; she only shows you parts, but
you realize how many carats that diamond has." --Mike
Newell (Pushing Tin director)
• "The word I like to use with Cate is facility. She has
enormous technical recourses, but she also has that
unique ultra bit that puts her on another plane; she
allows to be tantalized and tormented by the inner life
of a character. She's also very brave. And she's a
pretty good clown." --Geoffrey Rush (fellow actor)
• "The perfect combination of intellect and instinct,
but at the end of the day, she'll let instinct
override." --Christopher Eccleston (fellow actor)
• "She has got what all great actors have, that sense of
absolute intent where a performance is an actor will as
much as talent and imagination. [But] she sees different
by virtue of her emotional fearlessness, a wildness of
spirit. It's an intensity that embraces much more than a
surface beauty." --Jonathan Kent (Plenty director)
• "Once [Cate] was cast, I think a lot of other actors
and actresses felt that it was something that they
wanted to be involved in. It was really just about the
love of the script and, I think, working with Cate." Sam
Raimi (The Gift Directorial)."